1. Independant developer writes Konfabulator for Mac
2. Apple copies developer's project, calls it Dashboard
3. Original developer releases Konfabulator for Windows
4. Yahoo buys Konfabulator
5. Yahoo renames project Yahoo Widgets
6. Yahoo renames project Dashboard, copying Apple
Now all they need to do is merge them into the same product, since they do exactly the same thing, have the same name, but have incompatible widgets.
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1. Independant developer writes Konfabulator for Mac
2. Apple copies developer's project, calls it Dashboard
3. Original developer releases Konfabulator for Windows
4. Yahoo buys Konfabulator
5. Yahoo renames project Yahoo Widgets
6. Yahoo renames project Dashboard, copying Apple
Now all they need to do is merge them into the same product, since they do exactly the same thing, have the same name, but have incompatible widgets.